Each
tuner online
has its own advantages, but which
tuner suits you the best? In this video I’m going
to show you the difference between 4 different tuners First, I need to explain two settings for the
tuners: the instrument setting. For guitar, ukulele or violin and the chromatic
setting. With the instrumental setting, the tuner doesn’t
display other tones than your string names.. For the guitar instrument setting these tones are E, A, D, G, b and e. This setting can be helpful for beginners
to tune your guitar. The chromatic setting is a little bit more
complex, because you need some theoretical knowledge. In my previous video, you’ve already seen
this circle. The chromatic setting displays the tone your
string has at the moment. When your guitar is out very out of tune,
this setting will be displaying other tones than your string names.
If your string has the tone C, but it needs to be an E. You have to know that you have to tighten the string to get an E. See my other video for more info. An app for your smartphone. An app for your smartphone to tune your guitar
is very useful. In the app store there are a lot of tuners
you can choose from and most of them are free. I use the apps GuitarTuna and. Guitartoolkit
to tune my guitar. The app uses the microphone of your phone
to pick up the tone of your string.
The app tuner can be precise, but the pointer
may be choppy when it picks up some background noise. When there’s a lot of background noise,
it may be that the app shows the wrong tone. So useful for at home, but I don’t recommend
it using it on stage. Most of the time, free apps have instrumental
settings to tune your guitar. With an in-app purchase you can often buy
a chromatic setting for a few dollars. The clip tuner. A clip tuner is small and easy to use. You can clip it onto the headstock of your
guitar. This tuner doesn’t have an microphone, but
it reacts on vibrations the string produces. So it doesn’t respond to background noise. There are many different clip tuners.
Most of them have chromatic settings and some
of them have an instrumental setting. Like this one. The guitar, the bass, the violin and the ukelele. and a chromatic setting. The orchestral tuner. An Orchestral tuner uses a microphone to pick
up the tone. There may be a jack input to connect your
guitar with, so the tone is not affected by the background noise. It’s not called an orchestra instrument
for nothing. It is often used in an orchestra to tune the
different instruments. Most of the time, this tuner also has different options like
a metronome or a setting for hertz, but that’s another theoretical story, which is barely
used by guitar players. This tuner almost always only has a chromatic
setting. The tuner pedal. A tuner pedal is useful for electric guitar
players, who have to connect their guitar to their amp anyway. This one only works with a jack input. Besides the input, this pedal also has an
jack output, what can be connected to an amp. When you press the pedal, it cuts the signal
to your amp and you can tune your guitar.